Design and optimization of photonic crystal fiber based sensor for gas condensate and air pollution monitoring

• Main Authors: Md. Ibadul Islam, Kawsar Ahmed, Shuvo Sen, Sawrab Chowdhury, Bikash Kumar Paul, Md. Shadidul Islam, Mohammad Badrul Alam Miah, Sayed Asaduzzaman
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2017-04-01
• Series: Photonic Sensors
• Subjects: Relative sensitivity; confinement loss; gas sensor; effective area; nonlinearity and photonic crystal fiber
• Online Access: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13320-017-0404-6

Abstract In this paper, a hexagonal shape photonic crystal fiber (H-PCF) has been proposed as a gas sensor of which both micro-structured core and cladding are organized by circular air cavities. The reported H-PCF has a single layer circular core which is surrounded by a five-layer hexagonal cladding. The overall pretending process of the H-PCF is completed by using a full vectorial finite element method (FEM) with perfectly matched layer (PML) boundary condition. All geometrical parameters like diameters and pitches of both core and cladding regions have fluctuated with an optimized structure. After completing the numerical analysis, it is clearly visualized that the proposed H-PCF exhibits high sensitivity with low confinement loss. The investigated results reveal the relative sensitivity of 56.65% and confinement loss of 2.31×10-5 dB/m at the 1.33-μm wavelength. Moreover, effective area, nonlinearity, and V-parameter of the suggested PCF are also briefly described.